Director Isabelle Stever’s new film GRAND JETÉ will have its world premiere at Berlinale 2022, where it will compete for the Audience Award in the Panorama section. Congratulations to her and her team on this great success!

In its press release, the Berlinale writes:

„Director Isabelle Stever creates sight lines that uncompromisingly smash the traditional family drama and its encrusted conventions into a thousand individual parts. GRAND JETÉ lets us witness a blossoming desire between a mother and her estranged son. Imbued with unprecedented physical intensity, GRAND JETÉ challenges our visual habits and morals with relentless consistency and masterful mise en scène“.

Germany 2022, 104 minutes

With: Sarah Nevada Grether, Emil von Schönfels, Susanne Bredehöft.

Director: Isabelle Stever, screenplay: Anna Melikova – based on the novel FÜRSORGE (Care)“ by Anke Stelling. DoP: Constantin Campean. Editing: Paul Gröbel and Jil Lange.

Production: brave new work (Mohammad Farokhmanesh, Frank Geiger, Armin Hofmann) Co-Producer: Olga Dihovichnaya. Commissioning Editor: Andrea Hanke (WDR)